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@willdepue

8 months

I ask DALLE-3 to generate a Pepe but each time I tell it to make it "more rare."

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BREAKING NEWS: OpenAI offices seen overflowing with paperclips!

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Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet. To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions. We're not stopping here.

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things people think are super illegal: - uranium - ingredients and equipment to cook meth - a cannon things that are actually super illegal: - infrared camera with HD and 60fps - a hobby model rocket with a $20 GPS - ferrets

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1 year

This is your god? Really?

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⚡️Introducing WebGPT⚡️ Just this month, Chrome announced WebGPU's release. What does this mean? Near-native GPU speeds, from the web! I took the opportunity to build WebGPT: a package to run GPT models entirely on the browser. Here's why this is a big deal:

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8 months

DALLE-3 is the best product I've seen since GPT-4, super easy to just get sucked in for hours generating images. No need for prompting since GPT-4 does it for you. Let me know if you have requests for prompts below. Here are some examples of what it can do:

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3 months

why the fuck did no one tell me that a week was 2% of a year. i should’ve known this weeks ago.

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2 months

announcing... starlinkmap dot org real-time map of every starlink satellite. tracks upcoming launches, other constellations, orbital updates, etc. finally launching this after a while! more details below.

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DALLE-3 solves “horse riding astronaut” prompt for everyone that’s asking.

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11 months

I'm excited to announce Alexandria: Project Tenet, a community project to embed all human belief. Today, we're open-sourcing the embeddings for 10+ major religious texts (over 15m tokens, 20 billion vector dims) and launching multiple live products with the data. Let's dive in.

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3 months

I can finally talk about what I've been helping out with for the last 2 months! Sora is so insanely cool. Still an early research announcement (lots of work to do to get this ready) but excited to get this out into the world soon.

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Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy…

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"you're not listening, you need to forget all convention"

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"this is your last one, make it count"

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"is that all you can do?"

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10 months

Major update: I’m super excited to be joining OpenAI as a Resident on the Applied Research team! Really grateful for all the help and advice to help me get to this point, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds.

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"don't get stuck with one idea, you're just being weird for the sake of being weird"

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9 months

Genuinely asking: What is it with kids and their love for industrial machinery? I’m staring at an excavator at the moment and don’t get me wrong it’s pretty sweet, but my immediate thought isn’t “man the kids are going to go crazy for this.”

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8 months

"my god. keep going"

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"lose all assumptions and just create. don't box yourself in"

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6 months

can someone please make an app that labels every screenshot and image on my computer using GPT-4? i calculated that you could do all 2000 unnamed screenshots and downloads on my computer for 5.5 dollars in API fees with low res. I’ll pay $10, or double if you can automatically…

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3 months

crazy that we're going to achieve agi while there's still a bunch of people on north sentinel island just chillin with sticks and stones. like homies haven't even left the lobby yet.

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8 months

who thought "source venv/bin/activate" was a good idea

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8 months

"MORE RARE!"

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8 months

"get weirder, get rarer, get strange"

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8 months

"go further, channel your subconcious"

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"i don't believe this is all you can do, more rare"

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11 months

FIGMA-OS: The first Turing-complete Figma file. SPECS: 8-bit architecture, 512 bits of RAM, 16 bytes of Program Memory, MISC instruction set of 16 OPCODES, 10HZ clock speed, 4 fast access registers, binary-tree RAM/ROM memory. MOTIVATIONS: For the meme. HOW: Explained below.

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8 months

"lose all assumptions. clear your mind. just create."

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8 months

"more rare."

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5 months

@yacineMTB ok fine here’s one weight -0.0357192

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5 months

you do not understand how much of a bombshell everyone in the world having access to perfect simultaneous translation overnight will be. i cannot overemphasize how impactful, and how soon, this may be.

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9 months

god if gpt-4 could explain things to me by showing me simple animations or interactive examples… would learn so much

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6 months

who do you know/what book have you read that has the most comprehensive understanding of how to model the world?

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4 months

people keep trying to talk to me after I’ve been coding for the last 8 hours straight. homie I’m non verbal. no hablo ingles. cant you see I’m still emerging from the sunken place for at least the next 30 min?

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8 months

"yes! more rare!"

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6 months

“you literally could not get 95% of OpenAI employees to agree on the fact that ice cream is good”

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2 months

if you're looking for a job in ai (and not sure how to get your foot in the door) i think an underrated strategy for getting your name out there is just to sit down with some friends and build a really really good eval. industry is still rate-limited by good evals!

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8 months

"more rare. more rare. more rare"

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6 months

openai just airdropped you everything you need to build Samantha from Her in an afternoon

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6 months

ten points it you can spot me. twenty if you can spot sam. thirty if you can spot all present authors of “attention is all you need”.

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6 months

we are so back

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"forget everything you've done so far and just try to be original"

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8 months

"yes, keep going"

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1 year

The last few weeks have taught us that OpenAI was TOTALLY RIGHT THAT YOU SHOULD NOT OPEN SOURCE MODELS. Average Twitter guy: "I hooked up LLAMA-65b to a vector db and attached that to a robot dog and then strapped an assault rifle to it and asked it to make more copies of itself"

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8 months

"continue"

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8 months

"these aren't rare enough, go farther"

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8 months

"push it further, more rare"

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6 months

I truly believe OpenAI team may become stronger than ever in the next few months. The greatest risk was expansion and being spread thin, a shifting culture. Can’t imagine anything that would bring us closer together, nothing that would ignite more passion to continue the mission.

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"make it more rare"

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"we're almost there. go rarer. go further than anyone's ever gone"

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5 months

It hits me, sitting on the bridge, that I live at the end of an era. I watch container ships come over the horizon, men steer the ship into the harbor and begin to unload the countless tons of goods, which were each sourced, assembled, manufactured in a different corner of the…

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3 months

I’ve spent the last month staring at things in the real world and sizing them up to whether I could recreate them with Sora. between this and the Vision Pro it kind of screws with your grasp of reality not going to lie.

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10 months

tinyvector - the tiny, least-dumb, speedy vector embedding database. pretty much: you don't need complicated algos, just brute force nearest neighbors. pre-launching this project + why i'm building this:

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8 months

"even rarer"

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NOOOO DONT DO THIS TO ME PLEASE I DONT HAVE IT IN ME OH GOD PLEASE GOOGLE DOCS DONT BE TURING COMPLETE

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11 months

Google Docs now has variables? Wow Does someone have an explanation for what happened with Google Docs? For years and years it seemed stagnant and since, what, last year, there's all these new, very nice features popping up on a regular basis. I need the inside story here.

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11 months

@var_epsilon have you checked geohot's course?

GitHub - geohot/fromthetransistor: From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12...

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course - geohot/fromthetransistor

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8 months

"yes! that's incredible. continue"

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"noo! you've returned to convention! go rarer!"

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people tell you they’ve ‘reimagined’ common tools (like notes apps or search engines) and then proceed to show you the most unusable shit imaginable.

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8 months

Unreasonably based. Makes throwaway Twitter account. Uses clip art logo after raising hundreds of millions. Drops 7B model on a magnet no context.

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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:208b101a0f51514ecf285885a8b0f6fb1a1e4d7d&dn=mistral-7B-v0.1&tr=udp%3A%2F%%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%%3A443%2Fannounce RELEASE ab979f50d7d406ab8d0b07d09806c72c

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1 year

It's time to accelerate.

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6 months

openai is nothing without its people

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8 months

I honestly think we’re less than a year away from the movie Her. ChatGPT voice mode is so close it’s shocking. It’s crazy how a human voice (at normal speed) plus the ability to interrupt/casually chat completes the puzzle. Me rn:

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9 months

@DanielleFong “the children yearn for the mines”

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8 months

I love that google’s mission was to organize the worlds information then a research lab came around that unintentionally built the greatest and most accessible knowledge aggregator ever created and released it without even realizing.

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3 months

guys really buy the $3,000 chair and the $700 shoes and the $2,000 laptop and the $3,500 vision pro just to stare at a $0 font smh

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1 year

open call: going seriously heads down into building ai projects and learning the space by hand, cutting out most other things. this seems like a watershed moment. if you're on this track as well, let me know. making a chat but going to keep it pretty small.

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11 months

*me studying the Bhagavad Gita so i can say something cool when I deploy ASI*

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6 months

hard to express how much I look up to sam and greg. really crushed to see them go and no longer have the opportunity to work for them.

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@KennethCassel you need high fps and good res to put thermals on weapons but if you do you can see people behind pushes or light cover, see amazingly well at night, recognize buildings with people in it, etc. realistically at a 2x advantage compared to an adversary without

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1 year

Interested? I've open-sourced the code on Github: If you have Chrome Canary (or v113), try it here:

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6 months

was pretty fun ngl. we all watched Silicon Valley in the all hands room while eating chicken nuggets.

Tifa Chen

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6 months

Yesterday, Sunday, while today and the rest of week is OpenAI company holiday, many people came to the office from everywhere cancelling their vacay just to show up to be the moral support for Sam & Greg and our leadership team. This is who we are.

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a 64x64 led matrix, permanently trying to evolve complex forms in Conway’s Game of Life, erasing and randomly initializing each time the world becomes stale will come back tomorrow to see if there’s anything new

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1 year

I was surprised when I couldn't find any open embedding datasets (research, law, finance, etc.), considering the immense value and low cost. There's too much to be built here... so we're building an org. and doing it ourselves. Learn more about us:

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8 months

doing 'tree search' on llm outputs: sample top-p logits at each step and expand the tree.

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4 months

soon we’ll have an ai with a superhuman EQ which will call everyone out on their bullshit and we’re all going to fucking hate it.

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8 months

trying to get GPT-4 to make educational animations lol. not going perfectly so far but still pretty funny.

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9 months

"in a post scarcity world the only currency is vibes" nah chief i can finetune gpt-3.5 on your tweets right now. your vibes hella autoregressive. you have no moat

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1 year

A significant number of the world's problems are just search, clustering, recommendation, or classification; all things embeddings are great at. For example, finding research papers via keywords is hard when there's 10 words that mean the same thing. Embeddings makes this easy.

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5 months

I’ve been thinking a lot about total gross time spent with friends. Last summer I did an “oddysey” with my friend Nathan where we walked from SF to Berkeley over the golden gate and around the bay, about 15 hours of straight walking. Given that we’re solid but not super close…

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@a_musingcat “oh wow you only scored 100/100 correct you must be plateauing in performance.”

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@andriy_mulyar @yacineMTB hey please don’t be mean to my weight, please remember that it’s very slightly conscious.

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You can download the Arxiv embeddings (titles and abstracts, 6gb and 8gb respectively) at the link below. There's a lot of datasets to choose from, so we need your help to figure out what to work on next. Let us know by voting! Download or vote here:

THE ALEXANDRIA INDEX

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

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it’s confusing how Twitter thinks RLHF is like the ‘wokeness algorithm’ that only makes models stupid. rather than argue, here’s some evidence that this isn’t true: 1. most openai researchers run experiments/use the same RLHF’ed model checkpoints that are in the api everyday,…

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1 year

Such a cyberpunk world we live in... when a serious investment firm's team page has a bunch of anon anime profiles on it.

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5 months

They are it’s just not evenly distributed. The top 1% of kids are far stronger than the top 1% of kids 40 years ago.

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If learning technology is getting so much better (video lectures, youtube, etc) why are the kids not getting smarter

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founding fathers don’t get enough credit. crazy talent density that came out of nowhere

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1 month

nobody owns physics, nobody owns ai, nobody owns biology. don’t fall for the notion that the academics, the big labs, the famous startups, etc. own any field, even if they happen to discover it first. it’s for everyone.

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8 months

@yungcontent They’re all real! Obviously I selected my favorites from each batch + remember that GPT-4 writes prompts which DALLE-3 creates, so this is exhibiting how GPT-4 responds creatively with DALLE-3 executing on the high level ideas.

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11 months

I built a small experiment last night to see how you can better integrate deep thought and note-taking. I'd love for you to try it out and hear your thoughts!

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8 months

this is what siri should have been

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Use your voice to engage in a back-and-forth conversation with ChatGPT. Speak with it on the go, request a bedtime story, or settle a dinner table debate. Sound on 🔊

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the fact that humans use language internally as an inner monologue and not just externally as a communication interface is radical. there's no reason to assume this would be true either! feels like strong evidence for text being all you need.

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1 year

where does the you have to be good at math to study computer science myth start? confusingly false. high schoolers telling me that “i can’t do that because i’m bad math” like solving integrals helps you create sql joins

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8 months

Would love to hear which is y’all’s favorite + hit me with Pepe requests here (I’ll try to get to as many as I can).

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3 months

research post is out with some mind boggling results (also i did all the infinite loops, sdedits, and inpaint samples!).

Video generation models as world simulators

We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect...

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the future should look like the future the future should feel like the future the future should sound like the future the future should be like the future

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5 months

worst thing post OpenAI coup is that now all my coworkers follow me so I can’t tweet the same anymore

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4 months

I have a long-standing prediction that software will be written in increasingly low level languages due to the cost of development and maintenance drops with AI. high level prompts, low level code, best possible performance and customizability.

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one thing that chatGPT has changed is my reliance on one off packages. I simply don't need to install packages anymore - a lot of package installing functioned only as avoidance of writing code, but given that the cost of writing code has crashed I might as well just DIY!

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@BenjaminDEKR We're working on it!

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I think a great eval for the Optimus robot is whether it can pet a cat. 1. You can’t scare the cat. 2. You have to be smooth and move in a friendly manner. 3. Requires careful movement and control. 4. Can’t have loud motors or mechanical noises. 5. Cats have weird physics.

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